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But surely Plymouth can't go on without Wallinger? They will have to close the club down.

For a sport that is reliant on averages... says it all about the 'sport' when the governing body can't even add up 7 figures correctly

Sssssshhh

Did you really say that Sarjeant could beat Wells? That is some leap of faith. He’s got to get past the tapes first.

Give it time

So . . a confession from Mr R that televised speedway DOES affect attendances trackside I’ve said this all along, and I still see no benefit to the sport in having league matches televised live in the UK It’s not as if it’s a great product to advertise to the wider public in the current format Much better would be a carefully edited weekly highlights package - just show the races, and sensible interviews post-meeting instead of the gap-filling chats as at present Put together a package that just might attract new spectators and ex-attendees to the tracks

This is what we are missing!!!

I really do hope that the BSPA see sense and do not allow Eurosport to get the British Speedway broadcast rights as it will be a budget production gone will be your UHD coverage with multiple camera angles they will look at doing a more remote production with around 4 cameras and commentary done from London to save costs. As much as it pains me to say it but BT sport have done a good job in broadcasting Speedway since taking over with new innovation and fresh sense of broadcasting

Top riders don't need to have ridden a track before.

THJ should be a solid signing, although I still feel we are 1 rider short. Wells is struggling at times which would be a big concern for me if I was Matt!

Meeting preview http://www.swindon-speedway.com/news.php?extend.3324 With Nick Morris guesting for Tobi, is this a test for Nick on the track for 2020 ?

oh ohh . scunny struggling for guests on a Friday . thought godders had sorted all that stuff out ..

A full list of all the team changes this season are available to view as I keep the SGB Premiership, Championship and National league pages upto date on Wikipedia. SGB Premiership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGB_Premiership_2019 SGB Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGB_Championship_2019 National League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_National_League_speedway_season

Musielak rides in Russia on Thursday in a FIM pairs event. We are entitled to use a guest so no big deal.

WRONG! Jonasson has scored 11 points in a GP, 9 points in a GP and 8 points in a GP twice. Berntzon's best GP tally is 7. Thorsell's is 4. GP averages: Jonasson 90 103 4.58 Berntzon 15 12 3.20 Thorsell 15 7 1.87

PROBABLY three times as many people watch British speedway on television than actually attend. TV is good for general awareness that speedway still exists and for sponsorship both with riders and tracks.

I blame forums like this as much as anything for team changes. There are loads of pages full of "we need to replace xxx".

Those who already go are probably best suited to introduce new fans. I was introduced by a current fan. I introduced my youngest brother when he was 11, giving him a blank programme and showing him how to fill it in before he even attended a match. As he has said a few times, if he didn't know what it was all about and didn't know the scoring, he'd probably have not returned. That is why live matches on TV might not be encouraging new fans. It is a great spectacle but after a while, even cake becomes boring. New fans have got to understand the scoring system. Forget the rules, as they would have new fans running to the hills.

Both the top 2 flights should have 2 young (ish) reserves who stay there for the season. The draft idea was a good one just poorly implemented. And if persevered with and tweaked into a more workable model, then British speedway would be 3 or 4 years further down the line of development.

It is a major FIM-Europe event, recent past winners include the mighty speedway nation of Italy! ( and most of Italy's points were scored by an Argentinian)

You would, yes, but whatever the Bates' says goes at the end of the day at Sheffield. I would just caution against singling Simon out.

Time to Grow up .

The ambition was evident when we started the season 3 points below the limit

Scored 11 on last visit, has Harris scored that at home this season? And I don't mean by adding all his scores together.

If Worrall is seeing his Consultant this week, he could be cleared to return for this. But even so, it could be worth getting his brother in for this one, nobody would notice the difference.

OR it could be that tracks racing on a Bank Holiday hope for bigger than usual crowds and don't want TV to affect that.

I'll be travelling to this. I have full belief in the Panthers to win this, and string a run of results together, to make the top 4.

Andreas Jonsson has announced his retirement- thanks for the memories we will have AJ

Including me the attendance was 13,697. It was a sell-out according to the sign "Wszystkie sprzedane bilety" at the ticket office, and we bumped into several people outside the stadium trying to get hold of tickets. I'd logged-on to my on-line Sparta account the very minute tickets became available, but had to wait 50 minutes before I could even access the sales page and ended up getting tickets in a block next to the one I was planning to buy in. Fantastic atmosphere despite the thrashing they were being given - and it became very noisy when Drabik and Janowski got a 5-1 over Sayfutdinov and Kurtz in heat 8 to bring the deficit down to 19-29. It was then probably the quietest a few minutes later when Kolodziej and Hampel grabbed a 4-2 over Woffy and Jamrog in heat 9. A bit of an odd, and perhaps unexpected fact I suppose, in my last two visits to Wroclaw (last Sunday and last August v. Torun) Woffy had a total of 11 rides and only won one of them!! And that one win only because of Piotr Pawlicki's engine failure in heat 13 on Sunday. This latest trip was a 6 day visit and we'd been to Gorzow v Czestochowa on Friday night. Despite the early 6pm start time the attendance was 9,605, including a smattering of Czestochowa fans. They would defo have had to take the day off work with a journey of a little over 300 miles!!

Not sure if he has as he rode for Edinburgh in 2008 when Ipswich were still in top league

Bo Peterson at lakeside could turn a bike on a sixpence...

got to love all the replys about having no tv coverage how about us people that work odd hours and cant get to live matches as often as we would like or the fan thats house bound through injury or illness we apprieciate tv coverage as it keeps our interest in the sport alive i hope it can stay on bt for a long time to come

Yes, he popped in a little 5-1 in heat 14 to help seal a come from behind victory for the Robins 47-46 http://www.swindon-speedway.com/_mobile/news.php?extend.1192 Twas the night before I flew to Toruń to see Tommy G slap in a 7 ride max.

Or for when we face you in play off final

Very similar to TK from a Coventry viewpoint and potentially being a World Champion. Charismatic, Dependable and capable of beating anyone in the world day in day out. Happy Retirement AJ

Sundstrom actually topped the averages for Coventry in 2013 & Peterborough in 2012 after a reasonable 2011 also in Panthers colours. 2011 Linus Sundstrom Peterborough 6.90 2012 Linus Sundstrom Peterborough 7.87 2013 Linus Sundstrom Coventry 7.22

With a common denominator........

Been saying that for a while now, for no other reason as it would encourage clubs to bring on younger riders as they would become their reserves in seasons to come.

A excellent for my team Smederna last night as I said to Dave Goddard (brilliant commentary by the way) that I was hoping for at least 10 points lead so to end-up with 20 is awesome. But this is the only the half way stage and I cannot wait to see Smederna reach 36 pts on Thursday. Credit though to some of the Lejonen team though Lambert rode well, and Tornblom's victory in heat 5 was excellent at he was under pressure to secure victory. Also I ' am glad that Drabik did not get injured when he hit fence and lost control gifting Smederna a 5-1 when he had the victory for that race in the bag those extra points points could here be vital at the end of Thursday night second leg. If Smederna and Indianerna both get through I think that Dackarna will chose Indianarna as Smederna are to unpredictable, as it better to race against a team that you what they will do then a team that might put in a unexpected extremely strong performance against you.

Gavan getting wound up about Poole surely not!

When it gets to a stage when there are changes galore the credibility wavers also how can fans get a rapor with the riders when year on year there are changes.Also with the Drew situation this has come about because Sheffield never got the shape of there team right in the first place.

Err, no. It’s like choosing which of the seven dwarfs is the shortest.

Unlike Workington, as an example them.

Interesting that I am only doing what Swindon fans do on Poole threads during a course of a season back ( + winter) and you don't like it. 1. HS doesn't like it if i ask Batch and JD if they lost at Poole. 2. None of you like it if I ask if Vissing is your weakest rider? Simple enough question really. Every team has a weakest rider. I bet you're pretty quick to say who's Poole's is.

Me and you same...I've being saying it for years. Who is the target audience? Those who already go or to attract new fans or indeed new sponsors?

Fantastic effort from the Supporters Club and proof that the club and its supporters club working together is far better than them working apart. Now all we need is my numbers to come up and happy days.

Well you've brought "oystercard" back so you may as well bring Lambert back as well.

Have you gone nuts ?

Speedway Star did a piece the other week questioning speedway clubs' season-long chopping and changing of riders. The article was bang on. The season is just a continuation of practice matches. Perhaps if sides lost a certain number of match points for every change they made, they wouldn't be so hasty.

Possibly something to do with a no show and late notification?